2018 June Risk Limiting Audit Phase 2

The risk-limiting audit is a procedure that provides strong statistical evidence that the election outcome is correct, or has a high probability of correcting an outcome that wouldn't match a full hand count of the ballots. The audit itself requires human beings to examine and verify more ballots in close contests and fewer ballots in contests with wider margins.

Although the risk-limiting audit is not required to be performed, Orange County is voluntarily conducting a pilot of a risk limiting audit in order to continually improve its auditing procedures.